If you’re an Iranian soldier and die, the government recognises how you’re a immortal martyred hero in the tradition of Imam Hussain at the battle of Karbala, if you’re an American soldier in Operation Epstein fury they talk about how you are a male Quirk Chungus who loved brands
The most rudimental reason America will struggle to reindustrialize is because building mass industry requires taking money away from final consumption and putting it into new factories, and since the rich hold most of the money they will have to sacrifice the most consumption.
Guys fantasize about having a virginal gf because she wont know how bad at sex they are, but that kind of girl is going to expect sex to be some beautiful act. You need a woman who’s been with so many men shes completely jaded to the act and will basically dissociate during it
There is a deep cruelty in the boomer generation.
It experienced deep abundance and concluded that deep scarcity must be the natural order for the next generation.
The prosperity of the post-1945 era was not earned. As much as they think it is. It was loaned to them by the devastation of two world wars and the deferred dreams of their depression era parents. They then spent the principal and called it interest.
Now they demand the next generation service that debt and interest they themselves incurred.
A systemwhere one generation refuses to make room for another is a demographic oligarchy.
if the pussy hard to get I just assume the pussy not for me, and thats ok gangsta, plenty pussy for me and pussy for we. if the pussy is for me then the pussy will be, and neither have I paid for pussy because if the pussy is for me, then the pussy is free.
Hunter Biden: “I believe the biggest problem in America is not the oligarchy, it’s the closetocracy. Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in DC. The only reason that is relevant is I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world”
Funnily enough, despite the deep pessimism, I think there is optimism within The Odyssey. At the end, Nolan posits that the next generation (Telemachus) could lead civilization back to the right path, if the old generation gets out of the way (Odysseus exiling himself).
Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey is ultimately about the idea that a society can only function through respect for strangers. He believes that, despite 3,000 years passing since Homer, that fundamental truth about human nature hasn’t changed.